Thanks Eli, Following up on the emacs-devel message, I recompiled emacs and get substantially the same stack trace. This is with my ~/.emacs and all my local customizations loaded. when evaluating a form in a sly lisp buffer with (break) M-x sly-eval-last-sexp pops up a sly debug window in a new frame quitting the window (and frame) tries to select the previous window and the crash apparently happens at this point. I'm attaching the backtraces as attachments With a little guidance I expect to be able to investigate this further